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Welcome! This site is designed to help you find information on and buy the correct shrubs or bushes for your hardiness zone. We have lists of shrub names and types of shrubs.

Depending on which area or region you live in, will dictate the climate and so the types of shrubs or bushes that can grow there. Shrubs all have different hardiness tolerances. See Shrub Hardiness.

• Find your US hardiness zone and a list of which shrubs and bushes you could buy that will thrive there.

• Where to buy shrubs, directory of local, national and international online suppliers, garden centers and nurseries.

• How to buy the right shrubs online.

• Lists of shrubs and bushes by common name.

• Lists of shrubs and bushes by scientific, botanical Latin names.

• Photos of shrubs for identifying.

• List of deer resistant shrubs.

• How to Prune Shrubs.

• Facts, details and descriptions on shrubs and bush species that are found in north America and W Europe.

• What are Hardiness Zones? Why are they needed?

Shrub and Bush Facts and Definitions

• A bush is a small low shrub such as lavender, periwinkle or thyme and are often termed subshrubs. They have a woody base and soft stems that may die back to the base in winter.

• A  shrub is a woody plant having multiple stems arising from the root ball that do not die back in winter. Shrubs do not have a single trunk, a tree is defined as having a single stem or trunk. There is an area of overlap between shrubs and trees, see Shrub or Tree what's the Difference?

• Bushes and shrubs may have flowers and fruit - berries.

• Bushes and shrubs will have a mature height of less than 5-6 m (15-20 ft) tall, much shorter than most trees. See Shrub Growth Size

• A natural plant community dominated by shrubs is defined as shrubland.

• Shrub types. Shrubs and bushes can be defined as either deciduous shrubs or evergreen shrubs. There are also flowering shrubs, winter shrubs, hedge shrubs and garden shrubs.

• A shrubbery is defined as an area of cultivated shrubs in a park or garden and can be clipped as topiary.

• Shrub Pollination and shrub uses. Shrubs are used as Bio Fuel. Shrubs can be used in coppicing.

Link List of Hardiness Zones for Shrubs;

Names of shrubs, bushes listed under the coldest zones in which they normally succeed.

Shrubs Zone 1 - Shrubs Zone 2 - Shrubs Zone 3 - Shrubs Zone 4 - Shrubs Zone 5 - Shrubs Zone 6 - Shrubs Zone 7 - Shrubs Zone 8 - Shrubs Zone 9 - Shrubs Zone 10 - Shrubs Zone 11